uk bat.com - Key Group statistics 2012

Key Group statistics 2012
(Group subsidiaries, as at 31 December 2012)


Gross turnover
(including duty, excise and other taxes)		 £45,872 million
Revenue
(after deducting duty, excise and other taxes)		 £15,190 million
Profit from operations £5,412 million
Adjusted profit from operations* £5,970 million
Global cigarette volumes 694 billion
Payments to governments (tax paid including excise taxes) £32,170 million
Markets where brands sold Around 180
Markets where largest market share 60+
Cigarette factories 44 in 39 countries
Employees 56,363
Group Environmental, Health and Safety expenditure £40.4 million
Group Research & Development expenditure £171 million
Group charitable and community donations

£11.6 million (Statutory reporting criteria)
£11.5 million (London Benchmarking Group criteria)**
Shareholders (combined UK and South African registers) 113,809
Size of shareholding No. of holders Percentage of
issued ordinary
share capital
1–1,999 98,492 1.99
2,000–9,999 11,492 2.19
10,000–199,999 3,124 6.45
200,000–499,999 311 4.80
500,000 and over

389

 79.84
Treasury shares (UK) 1 4.73

Associate companies (as at 31 December 2012)

In 2012 the Group’s share of post-tax results of associates increased by £22 million, or 3 per cent, to £692 million. The Group’s share of the adjusted post-tax results of associates increased by 6 per cent to £697 million, with a rise of 10 per cent at constant rates of exchange.

* Adjusted profit from operations is derived after excluding the adjusting items from the profit from operations. These adjusting items include restructuring and integration costs, amortisation and impairment of trademarks, goodwill impairment and gains on disposal of businesses or trademarks.

** The LBG comprises more than 100 companies working together to measure corporate community investment. The reporting criteria differs from that used in statutory reporting for our Annual Report.